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| | The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, Peru. Francisco Pizarro, Huayna Capac, Atahualpa. (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Pizarro was born in 1975, in Trujillo, Spain and was the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro, an infantry colonel who had served in Italy under Don Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba in Navarra. |
 | | Pizarro, at his arrival, was welcomed by Atahualpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, who had just overcome his brother, Huascár in a war for the throne. |
 | | Francisco Pizarro is an important figure in Spanish colonial history, but his desire to discover and conquer Peru was driven by sheer greed for riches, as his associate, priest Francisco de Luque was often driven by Christian fanaticism to convert Incas. |
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